Du Yuzhou: China’s textile manufacturing industry has become a world power

Du Yuzhou: China’s textile manufacturing industry has become a world power

Du Yuzhou, former president of ChinaTextile Industry Federation: China’s textile manufacturing industry has become a world power

Before the founding of New China, the Chinese people lived a very poor life. One of the biggest characteristics was the lack of clothing and quilts. In 1949, my country’s cotton spinning production capacity accounted for only about 5% of the world’s total, and the country’s per capita annual fiber consumption accounted for only about one-third of the world average. After the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China has always regarded development as the top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, leading the Chinese people to embark on the great cause of building socialism. The vast number of cadres and workers on the textile industry front, as masters, after 72 years of arduous construction, finally became the leader of the party. On the occasion of its 100th birthday, the textile industry has regained its glory and ranked among the world’s textile powers. I personally feel from the practice of the development of the textile industry that no matter what complex external environment our party encounters and what hardships and twists it experiences, the theme of development is always a direct reflection of the flesh-and-blood ties between our party and the people.

The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China shifted the focus of the party’s work to economic construction. Since then, New China has embarked on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In his speech during the Southern Tour, Deng Xiaoping highly summarized the theory on development in the primary stage of socialism in China as “development is the last word.” Since then, this insightful conclusion has become a key to understanding the essential characteristics of socialism. It is under the guidance of this development theory that the textile industry, with its important status as an “important people’s livelihood industry, a pillar industry of the national economy, and an industry with international competitive advantage”, has played an indispensable role in the three-step strategy of socialist modernization. historical role.

The first step of the strategy in the 1980s was to solve the people’s food and clothing problem. The textile industry only takes cotton as an example. From 1979 to 1983, the production increase in these four years has reached 2.8 times the production increase in the 10 years of the “Cultural Revolution”. At the end of 1983, the State Council announced the abolition of the cloth ticket system and the full liberalization of the textile market, taking the lead in achieving the first step of strategic goals.

The second strategic step in the 1990s was to enable the people to live a well-off life. Under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Speech, the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China established the establishment of a socialist market economic system as the goal model of economic reform. Economic system reform and structural adjustment were vigorously promoted, the strategic adjustment of the textile state-owned economy achieved major breakthroughs, and the non-state-owned economy developed rapidly. Finally, at the end of the 20th century, it became a world textile power. The total amount of fiber processing accounts for 1/4 of the world, and exports account for 14.7% of the world; compared with 1990, the annual clothing expenditure per capita in urban and rural areas increased by 7.48 times in 2000; the textile industry trade surplus It was 1.58 times the national trade surplus that year.

In the first 20 years of the 21st century, as the key stage of the third step strategy, the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way was determined. During the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” and “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” periods, the “Scientific Outlook on Development” established by the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, as an important sublimation of “development is the last word”, promoted the textile industry to seize the great opportunity of joining the WTO, focusing on A series of basic work related to the transformation of textile industry from large to strong has been carried out, which has brought the development speed, qualityefficiency, high-tech transformation, and development of international and domestic markets of the textile industry into the fast lane, and in the later period of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, the goal was to build a “powerful country in textile science and technology, a strong textile brand, a strong textile sustainable development country, and a strong textiletalented country” “Outline of Building a Strong Textile Country (2011-2020)”. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” periods, the “new development concept” established by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Xi Jinping New Era established by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Under the guidance of the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, the textile industry is pushed onto the track of high-quality growth. The textile industry has seized the opportunities of the new scientific and technological revolution and new industrial transformation, withstood the impact of the world economic downturn, Sino-US trade friction, the COVID-19 epidemic, and the downward pressure on its own economy. node, basically achieving the major goals of building a strong textile country.